When K Sivan, now the chairman-designate of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), got a call on Wednesday that he has been chosen for the most high profile space job in the country, he was reviewing the mission readiness of India’s workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The PSLV C-40 is expected to carry 31 satellites, including a remote sensing Cartosat-2 and a nano satellite that will be the 100th one built by Isro.
It is a coincidence that the rocket scientist began his carrier in 1982 in the space agency on the PSLV rocket. Sivan is ...
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First Published: Thu, January 11 2018. 01:38 IST
